On 31 Aug 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Seems to me that someone has not quite understood how to avoid casting
> when working with enums.
>
> First: whenever you have to use a cast you should think: "Something
> fishy is going on, how can I avoid this."
That's what I was thinking. I was also concerned why Dekel was getting
the warnings he was so we had some private discussions. I was more
concerned with why he was getting warnings and I couldn't with any
compiler I have no matter what flags I used. Although I can get a warning
from 2.95.2 when using -pedantic, complaining about using SMI_TOTAL where
it wants an integer. Maybe that should be ButtonPolicy::SMI_TOTAL
instead?
> I have removed all casts from ButtonPolicies + changed what Angus did
> you work around wrong use of casts.
Thanks. This looks more sensible.
> (casting a enum val to a ref to int is _bad_)
Definitely agree here.
Allan. (ARRae)
